Causes
Slavery
Leaders
Battles
War Geography
100
How did the admission of new western states prior to the Civil War contribute to sectionalism?
New western states may be admitted as free or slave states.
100
People who didn’t believe in slavery were called what?
abolitionists
100
Who was the President of the Union
Abraham Lincoln
100
Lexington is to the Revolutionary War as which of the following is to the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
100
In what part of the US were more battles fought: the North or the South?
South
200
What is the missing provision to the Compromise of 1850 from this list?
California entered the Union as a free state.
200
What invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves?
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
200
Who was the major Union General?
Ulysses S. Grant
200
What battle was considered the “turning point” of the war?
Gettysburg, PA
200
The Union represented the __________ part of the US and the Confederacy represented the ________ part.
Northern; Southern
300
Why did Uncle Tom’s Cabin anger northern abolitionists?
Because it depicted the evils of slavery
300
What about the northern economy made slavery less necessary?
The north was more industrial and didn't have large plantations
300
Who were two major Confederate Generals?
Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
300
What was the bloodiest single day in the Civil War?
Antietam
300
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, passed in 1854, created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska as popular sovereignty territories. Following the passage of this law, fighting broke out in Kansas over _________. The conflict came to be known as _________.
slavery; Bleeding Kansas
400
In 1820, the Missouri Compromise included provisions to ban slavery in some federal territories. The Supreme Court overturned those provisions in its Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling in 1857. How did Congress eventually invalidate the Supreme Court’s decision?
It passed the 13th Amendment to make slavery illegal.
400
What about the southern economy made slavery seem necessary?
They were primarily agricultural and needed labor to help grow crops
400
What impact did President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation have on the course of the Civil War?
It made the abolition of slavery a primary goal of the war.
400
What was the name of the union strategy to surround the South and strangle it
Anaconda Plan
400
What were some effects of the war on the South?
Cities, buildings, and plantations were burned and destroyed, slaves were freed in the former Confederacy
500
Besides slavery, what other major issue increased tensions between the Union and Confederacy?
The issue of states' rights
500
Who was Harriet Tubman and how did she contribute to the Civil War?
She was an escaped slave that created the Underground Railroad
500
How did President Lincoln's assassination affect the nation?
The loss of leadership made overcoming the challenges the nation faced more difficult.
500
What was one of the last battles of the Civil War where the Confederacy surrendered?
Appomattox Courthouse
500
Along what river was the South split in two?
The Mississippi